branch
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[edit] Etymology
From Old French branche, from Vulgar Latin branca (“paw”), possibly from Gaulish *vranca, akin to Old Norse vró (“angle, corner”), Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic rǫka (“hand”), Albanian rangë (“yard work”).
[edit] Noun
branch (plural branches)
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- Something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
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- (part of a tree): bough, twig, see also Wikisaurus:tree
[edit] Translations
woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing
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something that divides like the branch of a tree
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office of an organization with several locations
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area in business or of knowledge, research
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certificate given by Trinity House
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[edit] Verb
branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
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to arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree
to produce branches
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to jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement
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